Barack Obama has announced a package to cut unemployment amongst Armed Forces veterans, reports the Associated Press.
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Demand for staff driven by mining and mining-related construction requires a new tranche of ‘orange collar’ workers to emerge, according to Hays.
Unemployment rates in December 2011 were lower in 329 out of 372 US metropolitan areas than in the same month in 2010, according to the Bureau of Labour Statistics.
The labour minister Eduardo Brenta has said that the Uruguayan government is looking to alter its migration policies in a year where 25,000 new jobs are predicted.
Managerial recruitment activity in the US was off to a slow start in January, with a loss of 0.1% points since last month, according to the new CareerCast.com JobSerf Employment Index.
All signs point East? After a worrying time through Q4, when clients across the globe slowed down their hiring as business confidence became increasingly affected by macro economic uncertainty, Q1 2012 has been fairly benign for many recruiters. Yes, there are trouble spots – the UK market has seen extremely diverse reports perhaps in some cases as much linked to internal issues as external markets and Southern Europe is a minefield of broken opportunity.
For many centuries, the ‘black dog’ has been used as a euphemism for depression, most famously by Sir Winston Churchill in the Second World War and Dr Samuel Johnson in the 1700s.
For most investors in UK-listed recruiters, 2011 was an annus horribilis with the sector underperforming the wider market by close to 40% as sentiment towards highly cyclical stocks succumbed to an increasingly uncertain economic climate. Hays and Robert Walters were notable underperformers, down 47% in the year.
While financial markets around the world continue to balance the ongoing debt worries in the Eurozone against more positive news elsewhere, even including some better economic indicators in the US, the pause in decision making by businesses on a global scale is sending a chill into the GDP figures of several countries.
Drawing the short straw to write the City Column that covers the last two weeks of 2011 is a little like landing the graveyard slot on late night radio. It shouldn’t surprise any of you to hear that nothing of note occurred in the recruitment sector over Christmas and New Year.